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  1. Tcar

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    The top pic makes it look like dueling Sears (Willis) Towers...


    Congrats on starting this great thread about Chicago architecture. Good stuff.
     
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    I think Chicago does ok but builds to many value engineered buildings for my taste, but that's what makes money. I hope they do something really special on the old Spire site.


    1200 S Indiana at 887 FT and 78 FLOORS is now under construction. That makes 2 almost 900 foot tall buildings and 1 1200 foot tall building under construction in Chicago. 2 more 900 foot tall buildings are close to construction starts and should be ready by early 2017...We have almost 50 300-600 foot tall buildings under construction, second in the US to only NYC. Not a bad year for Chicago. This is the kind of Chicago news the NY based media does not report.
     
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    1000 S. Michigan Avenue update rendering viewed from where 1200 S. Indiana will be. The Essex tower on Michigan Ave. will start construction in February 2017. If they do start 1000 South Michigan early next year that would make 3 900 foot tall building under construction in downtown Chicago. They are building a Skyscraper wall in South Grant Park.

    I do not like the lower part of this building.
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    I wish they would cover over the train tracks,it was talked about for years,but never done
     
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    Another one, to take the General Growth buildings lot on the south branch.


    110 N. Wacker office tower around 800ft. PD filed tomorrow 01/18/17
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    Another massive building supported on 'visual toothpicks', no matter how cute the arrangement.

    Does it actually extend over the river? Doesn't quite look like it..
     
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    According to the drawings they released it does slightly. The building looks a lot like 150 N Riverside with a different base. The fact that it is so close to the river is cool, but we have seen a lot of this blue glass with setbacks all over the world and I am getting tired of it already. They could atleast change the color, as they have a few choices that would be energy efficient.
     
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    By the way, the location of this building in Chicago will make it almost completely hidden in the skyline. Only two places in America that a 800 foot tall building would not be visible, NYC and Chicago.
    NYC is really pulling away from Chicago right now. A lot of the new buildings over 1000 feet in NYC are very narrow rentals and Condos, but still impressive in design.
     
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    Yes, those New York "super slims" are almost disconcertingly skinny. As an interesting aside, they are generating a planning controversy due to the impact of their shadows on Central Park. Lots of peripheral impacts when you put up big/tall structures.
     
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    One South Halsted to start construction now.....Around 500 feet tall and looking rather nice. It was supposed to start last June.
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    Hate to be on the top floor on a windy day!! Those are really skinny towers in NYC. Chicago likes 500-1000 foot and fat :)
     
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    At least the shadows are skinny too.
     
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    This tower keeps showing up in new renderings with some speculating it might be a real proposal for the Related Spire site. We will see.


    It is dramatic and big, Gensler's Gateway tower.

    This photo does not show the Wanda Vista tower across the river now under construction.
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    Wow, spectacular.

    That might end up like the Citi Corp building in Manhattan...
    People (tourists) are afraid to walk under it; it looks like a gust could topple it.
     
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    Wolf Point East to start construction in May. Around 750 feet tall it is the smaller tower on the right. The middle Wolf Point South tower is not due to start until the east tower is completed.

    This development is owned by the Kennedy family.
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    More photos of 1000 S Michigan Avenue. Essex and 1200 South Indiana are not shown in the photo and they are both under construction and almost as tall if not taller than 1000 S.

    A city in a city on the south corner of Grant Park.

    I love what they are doing in downtown Chicago, but I also love what they are doing in NYC. Someone should start a Skyscraper NYC thread.
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    1326 South Michigan to start construction in May(blue glass building in the middle). Around 500 feet tall and just south of 1200 S Indiana and Essex both now under construction.
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    Union Station Redevelopment ...What a bunch of rubbish!!! The new design makes to old design look great. Atleast in NYC and D.C. they come up with some innovative ideas when it comes to Fed approved designs, this looks like a suburban Dallas/Atlanta/Chicago office complex plopped on the top of Union Station. Total crap.

    Photo 1 new proposal

    photo 2 original 1920's proposal.
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